Microsoft 365 Business Premium service description

5/13/2020

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Microsoft 365 Business Premium is an integrated solution bringing together the best-in-class productivity of Microsoft 365 with advanced security and device management to help safeguard your business from advanced threats. This service description describes the plan options and features. For more information about Office 365, see Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service descriptions.

Feature availability across Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Premium plans

Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes essentially all the features available in Microsoft 365 Business Standard along with additional Microsoft security features.

Windows 10 Pro managementIf you have devices that are licensed for Windows 7 and 8.1 Professional, Microsoft 365 Business Premium provides an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro.10

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Simplified deployment with Windows AutoPilot

Yes

Subscription activation

Yes

Organizational control of device screen on idle

Yes

Organizational control of user access to apps from Microsoft Store

Yes

Organizational control of user access to Cortana

Yes

Organizational control of Windows tips and advertising from Microsoft

Yes

Windows 10 devices kept up-to-date automatically

Yes

Windows 10 Security

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Protect PCs from viruses and other threats using Windows Defender Antivirus

Yes

Protect PCs from web-based threats in Microsoft Edge

Yes

Use rules that reduce the attack surface of devices

Yes

Protect folders from threats such as ransomware

Yes

Help protect files and folders on PCs from unauthorized access with Bitlocker

Yes

Notes

1 Includes Exchange Online Plan 1.2 Azure Information Protection (AIP) enables the supported Information Rights Management (IRM) features. AIP Plan 1 is included in Microsoft 365 Business Premium. 3 Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes Exchange Online Archiving subscription. Each Exchange Online Archiving subscriber initially receives 100 GB of storage in the archive mailbox. When auto-expanding archiving is turned on, additional storage is automatically added when the 100 GB storage capacity is reached. For more information, see Overview of unlimited archiving. 4 Available at https://securescore.office.com. Requires admin permissions. For more information, see Microsoft Secure Score.5 Simplified Windows 10 device management built into the Microsoft 365 admin center. Intune management capabilities of iOS, Android, macOS, and other cross-platform device management built into the Device management admin center, also licensed for use with Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Third-party apps and configuration of things like WiFi profiles and VPN certificates can also be managed in the Device management admin center. 6 This plan comes with Microsoft Stream Plan 2, which includes Video portal, Speech to text transcription, Deep Search, and Face Detection.7 Microsoft 365 comes with Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Plan 1. For more information, see Microsoft 365 Business Premium security and compliance features.8 Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes the following Azure AD Premium P1 features: self-service password reset with AD write-back, Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Conditional Access. It does not include the entirety of Azure AD Premium P1.
9 Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscribers are licensed to use full Intune capabilities for iOS, Android, MacOS, and other cross-platform device management. Features not available in the admin center in Microsoft 365 Business Premium, like third-party app management and configuration of WiFi profiles, VPN certificates, etc., can be managed in the full Intune console.
10 If you have devices that are licensed for Windows 7 and 8.1 Professional, Microsoft 365 Business Premium provides an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. With Microsoft 365 Business Premium you not only get Microsoft Defender security features that come enabled in Windows Pro, you also get access to premium features like network protection for web-based threats and host intrusion prevention rules to mitigate ransomware. When you set up your Microsoft 365 Business Premium account, you select app protection, and device configuration settings. These settings determine the policies that are applied automatically to devices when they join Azure Active Directory.
11 Full Azure AD Premium P1 is rolling out soon to Microsoft 365 Business Premium customers. For more information, check out this blog post.